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Google is enabling cross-border payments within the Google Pay app through integrations with Western Union and U.K.-based remittance firm Wise. In the rollout’s first phase, U.S.-based Google Pay users may initiate transfers from the U.S. to India and Singapore by tapping “Pay” and choosing Western Union or Wise, with other countries to be added soon, the companies announced Tuesday. U.S. Google Pay users will be able to send funds through the app to 200 countries via Western Union and 80… Source link

Google I/O is taking place next week where the company will announce updates and future improvements across its various platforms, operating systems, and online services. Android Central reports that some users on Android have been prompted to fill a survey to help improve Wear OS. There has been much speculation about Wear OS and what direction Google may be steering the platform. Ever since Google’s Acquisition of Fitbit, it was rumored that Google planned to launch a Pixel-branded… Source link

Google Cloud and CrowdStrike are expanding their security service integrations to give joint enterprise customers greater visibility into potential threats to their hybrid cloud deployments and greater protection of their workloads. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform will be tightly woven into Google Cloud’s security suite including its Chronicle security analytics platform, Google Cloud Security Command Center (SCC) for threat detection aggregation and VirusTotal Enterprise for enriched… Source link

Sergey Brin attends the 2019 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center on November 4, 2018 in … [+] Mountain View, California. Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Googl GOOG e cofounder Sergey Brin sold $32.7 million worth of Alphabet shares last week, marking his first sale of the tech giant’s stock since 2017. According to SEC filings, Brin sold 13,889 Alphabet shares on Friday—a tiny sliver of his more than 38 million shares in the… Source link

Greenville student Jakkula Chaitanya has been chosen as the Doodle for Google Competition winner for the state of Mississippi. Being chosen as the state-wide Doodle for Google winner, Chaitanya is now eligible to become the national winner of the competition. The Doodle for Google Competition is designed to encourage eligible U.S. school students and their parents/guardians on their behalf to use their creativity to create their own interpretation of the… Source link

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and TOKYO, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Seven-Eleven Japan is advancing its digital transformation strategy with Seven Central, its data cloud platform built on Google Cloud that consolidates and analyzes data from its 21,000 stores across the country to drive real-time business decision making. At its core, Seven Central’s purpose is to enable real-time data views to enable faster business decision making. It brings siloed point of sale (POS) data from Seven-Eleven Japan… Source link

On May 6, 2021, Google announced that beginning in the second quarter of 2022, mobile app developers submitting new apps and app updates to the Google Play store will be required to disclose… Source link

Shocked I am, shocked beyond words. A new study from Brigham Young University (BYU) found that a highly-touted smartphone capability claim from both Apple and Google is indeed complete nonsense. The feature, in this case, is Apple’s Night Shift (and Android’s Night Mode), which adjusts a device’s screen to warmer hues, theoretically allowing users to get to sleep faster. BYU detailed the perception, the myth Apple and Google played upon, and then obliterated… Source link

The next time you open your Google browser, you might come across a doodle drawn by local 4th grader Makenna Krukenberg of Bismarck, but she needs your help to make this a reality.   Named the North Dakota winner in the Doodle for Google competition, Makenna’s doodle is now in the running to be picked as a national finalist in her grade group. There will be 5 national finalists in total, one of which will go on to become the national winner. Contestants were asked to use… Source link

In addition to confirming the upcoming Pixel 2021 smartphones, a Google employee also addressed the existence of the GS101 Whitechapel chipset. Thanks to a recent code update in the Android Open Source Project (aka AOSP), a Google employee has made it all but certain that this year’s Pixel 6 will ship with custom Google silicon. While this latest update doesn’t provide any new details on how Google’s first smartphone chip will work, it does serve as the… Source link